As an investor, what do you intend to do to drive the price up?

I don't think I can explain this to you in a few words... I would need to have a very long conversation first and try to understand what you know first about Hive, otherwise, I could literally confuse you.

It's literally time for Hive to be listed on various exchanges.

Hive is listed on a lot of exchanges... check https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hive-blockchain
Adding more exchanges does not necessarily help, because if there are no traders or traders don't care about trading Hive, then its a loss of time and money to list HIVE in those. Plus, centralised exchanges demand expensive fees most of the time...

You have a lot of other options too:

• You can trade HIVE for HBD on the internal market for free (no fees) - my preferred place, to be honest.
• You can trade via pools on Magi (a layer 2 under HIVE) now too... which has a bridge to BTC already, and soon more will come, plus it is aimed to be decentralised, non-KYC and no limits dependent. The current only interface with all the functionalities is Altera: https://altera.magi.eco
• You can trade "pegged" HIVE or HBD and/or many other tokens via Hive Engine (another older layer 2 under HIVE). There are many interfaces for this... including Hive Keychain (PC/Desktop version) where you can trade between Hive Engine (layer 2) and Hive (layer 1).
• Others, but probably harder to explain...

On some current platforms, you can only buy it, but not trade it. It's frustrating to see thousands of 'shitcoins' listed with no real utility or value, while Hive is listed on just a few exchanges.

Agree on the sentiment of cryptocurrencies in general. But again, I don't think we have need for more exchanges... please provide evidence of what exchanges would bring in terms of users... give an example for me to understand.

I'd also like to know the number of users and the total number of projects and native dApps currently running on the Hive blockchain.

It's very dificult to tell number of users, because of how blockchains work... in general. You have many tools that would tell you how many accounts exist and how many are active... for example, use this tool to run your own investigation: https://hivescan.info

dapps, the other day, I have asked AI to count the number of repos that have code that interacts with Hive, and AI estimated around 400-600 dapps (repos), but these are just the public repos, there are more private and others that the source code is not public yet. I have probably used +100 or so... estimated by the almost 10 years of life I have here... In my view, it's a bit irrelevant at this stage how many exist, especially now with AI vibe coding... what matters is they do "useful" things and get used by users, which given the nature of Hive, most of them are open source, and anyone can either run them, or play with them and create new ones. There are too many things around, and that can create confusion among users that don't know how to navigate quality.

Let me know what KIND of dapps you are looking for, as I don't think useful to give you just the ones I like... because you may dislike them or not be interested.

For example, all the tools I have given you here, are Hive dapps. With the exception of the CoinMarketCap website, obviously.

Hope to have helped with this comment. I am happy to continue the conversation if you have more to ask or need more details.